What a specimen of strength we have before us in this picture. Another mark of the wonders of God’s creative power. As we look at those intelligent looking eyes; his thick coat of hair and shaggy mane, we can say, All these display wisdom on the part of the Creator, But I think I hear someone say,
“Why did God make him so ferocious, and have him use his strength in a wrong way?”
Ah, God did, not make him that way. Sin coming into this world, through Adam and Eve’s disobedience, enabled Satan to have power over animals as well as man, and that ferocious character is by the working of Satan.
God is permitting Satan for a time to exercise his power, but soon the Lord Jesus Christ shall come again with power and great glory, and shall cast Satan into the bottomless pit, and not allow him out for a thousand years. Then the lion will be quiet and peaceful as a lamb. So the lamb will lie down beside it and the lion, instead of eating the lamb, will eat straw like an ox.
The same naughty way in you is through the working of Satan too, but there is this difference between you and the lion; you are responsible for what you do, but the lion is not. If you obey Satan, you are not obeying God, and God asks you to believe on. Him whom He has sent, and that one is His Son,
If we accept Christ as our Saviour, we can, count on His grace to keep us in all our ways.
ML 02/25/1940